Seventh Bracelet for Nguyen

Last week at the WSOP Men Nguyen won the Stud Championship and $394,800 in prize money as well as his seventh career bracelet

Last week saw Men Nguyen win the tenth event at this year’s World Series of Poker, the $10,000 7-card Stud World Championship. This brought Nguyen his seventh career bracelet and put him in a tie for sixth all time, joining players such as Phil Ivey and Billy Baxter. The win also game with $394,800 in prize money, on the way to the prize Nguyen had to beat Brandon Adams in an extremely high quality heads up match early last Sunday morning. All eyes in this match were on last week’s Players Championship heads up opponents Michael Mizrachi and Vladimir Schmelev, however, Nguyen managed to steal the show with his excellent crowd banter and absolute confidence, he even played part of the tournament without a single glance at his cards!

At one point during the match against Adams Nguyen turned to him and said “"I got six bracelets man. I want one more! How many you got? One? None? Don’t worry, you beat Men “The Master” and you’ll be famous tomorrow!"

Adams did not seem to mind all the playful teasing, even when during the final hand Nguyen came back from behind to win the tournament with a five-outer on seventh street. Before the hand went down, Nguyen agreed to blindly get the rest of Adams’s chips in the middle whilst a 10 was showing, Adams seemed pretty happy to get the chance to double up with his queen. Adams went on to pair queens and Nguyen had only a king high straight draw with just the final down card left to deal.

Nguyen needed a king or a queen to win and he slowly squeezed out the back corner of the card and you could see him nearly fall off the stage with excitement when he realized it was a picture card. He must have been praying for it not to have been one of the jacks left in the deck, he was lucky and turned over a king. The pair was enough for him to win the title and seventh bracelet.

Overall the final table ended looking like this:

1. Men Nguyen — $394,800
2. Brandon Adams — $243,958
3. Steve Billirakis — $152,788
4. Nikolay Evdakov — $110,629
5. Joe Cassidy — $86,461
6. Michael Mizrachi — $68,949
7. Vladimir Schmelev — $55,991
8. Sirous Jamshidi — $46,206